Southern Zazaki

Dımli, Dımılki
Native to Turkey
Region Main in Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Siverek, Gerger
Ethnicity Zaza
Native speakers
1,500,000 [1] (1998)[2]
Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-2 diq
ISO 639-3 zza – inclusive code
Individual codes:
kiu – Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki)
diq – Dimli (Southern Zazaki)
Glottolog zaza1246[3]
Linguasphere 58-AAA-ba

Southern Zazaki (in Zazaki: Dımli, Dımılki or Zazakiyê Veroci) is one of dialects of the Zazaki language. Southern Zazaki is predominantly spoken by over 1 million people in the southeastern provinces of Turkey such as Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa and Adıyaman.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Zazaki, Southern". Ethnologue.
  2. ↑ Dımli, Dımılki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kirmanjki (Northern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Dimli (Southern Zazaki) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Zaza". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Joshua Project. "Language - Zazaki, Southern :: Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net.

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